Chapter 738 Moonlight in the Desert North
The same moonlight, two loves. In the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the Mobei grassland is cold and the moonlight is cold, and everything is silent. The moon is shining, the breeze is blowing, the long grass is gently undulating, and the grassland under the moon is empty and charming. There is a bonfire in the middle of several cowhide tents, Kang Qianfeng, who is dressed in the costume of a desert herdsman, and several brothers and sisters sit around the bonfire, the lamb is roasted on the bonfire, the meat is fragrant, the grease drips on the bonfire and there is a sizzling flame, a cowhide wine bag is passed in the hands of everyone, the bag is a strong wine burning knife, and everyone uses the spirit to resist the cold.
Sun Tong took a piece of moon cake and sent it to Kang Qianfeng, and said, "Senior brother, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, eat a moon cake according to the season." ”
The mooncakes were bought from passing caravans during the day, and the shadow of war hung over the entire steppe, while the caravans were busier. Zheng Guo imposed an embargo on grain, ironware, wine, tea and other materials in the Northern Desert, and turned a blind eye to the exchange of silk, porcelain, beads, and spices, and encouraged the traders to transport good horses back from the Northern Desert.
Another trade route from the Western Regions to the Northern Desert became busier and busier, and the continuous caravans crossed the Hegao Mountain to transport the grain, arrows, armor, ordnance, and daily necessities urgently needed by the people of the Northern Desert, and then pulled back cartloads of gold and jade. In order to cope with the upcoming battle, Tizhu Juji moved the inventory of the royal court, and even the decorations in the royal tent were replaced with supplies.
Kang Qianfeng took off the small silver knife with the characteristics of the Western Regions from his waist, divided the moon cake into four pieces, took one piece in his hand, and said to Sun Tong: "Take it to Uncle Feng, and the rest of the moon cakes are also cut, and give them to the brothers to taste, it is not easy to go out." ”
It's not easy, ten taels of silver to buy four moon cakes, this is the caravan entrainment of private goods, if the army is found out, the fine will be confiscated, if there is no background, put on a crime of collaborating with the enemy, people kill the goods confiscated.
The moon cake is filled with jujube paste, soft and sweet, but Kang Qianfeng's mouth is full of bitterness, and he has been in the camp of Zhenbei for more than three months, and many Jianghu people have listened to it under the command of the Military Intelligence Department and the deputy governor of the secret guard.
Because of his relationship with King Chu'an, Huang Tong took great care of Fengleimen in terms of food and accommodation, and the twelve people were assigned to four camps, and the position was in the middle. Kang Qianfeng led his brothers and sisters to go in and out of the desert several times to investigate the military situation, and once even sneaked into the courtyard of the desert king. Ji Gong was promoted to the deputy canon of the Military Intelligence Department (from the seventh grade), and several brothers and sisters who accompanied him also became guards and wrestlers, Sun Tong, who gave him moon cakes, was the guardian of the ninth grade, and Chen Buting was already the secretary of the eighth grade.
Swallowing the moon cakes, Kang Qianfeng took the wine bag handed over by Chen Buting, raised his head and took a big sip, the hot feeling went down his throat, and his body suddenly warmed up a lot. He used to like the soft and mellow Qiongzhou liquid, but after coming to the Northern Desert, he gradually liked the strong taste of burning knives.
The bonfire jumped like blood, and three or four hundred of the Jianghu people who came to serve in the Military Intelligence Department had fallen on the grassland, and the blood watered the weeds, and four of the brothers who went out with him stayed on the grassland forever. Shang Yangfeng died in the hands of the master of the Sadu Sect, Li Qingping was shot to death, Deng Guorong was hacked to death to cover himself, and Xu Feng was blocked when he escaped from the Moren Royal Court, and it is estimated that his life is difficult to protect. Kang Qianfeng exhaled a breath of wine, the wind was too cold, and his heart was hard.
Kang Qian
Feng received a secret letter from his father, and the assassination of Jiang Anyi failed, and fourteen Jianghu assassination masters died in the hands of Jiang Anyi, casting Jiang Anyi's reputation as a "bloody hand" with his life. Kang Qianfeng shuddered, and went to kill Jiang Anyi by himself, I am afraid that the bones are cold at this moment.
Fortunately, the court only grabbed the Tianxing Sect and the Xingyue Pavilion, and did not chase after the mastermind behind the scenes, Kang Qianfeng thought about it repeatedly, and there should be no traces left. However, the court took the opportunity to remove Tianxingzong and Xingyue Pavilion from the top ten sects of the rivers and lakes, and released rumors to rearrange the positions of the top ten sects of the rivers and lakes with the size of their meritorious contributions, and rewarded them with gold medals and pardons for the sects to attract Jianghu people to serve the court.
The lives of the people of the rivers and lakes are not valuable, just like the weeds on the grassland, which grow lush and fluffy soon after being eaten by cattle and sheep. Last month, nearly 2,000 Jianghu people were enriched to the Military Intelligence Department, and the camp of the Military Intelligence Department was expanded by half, and Kang Qianfeng saw many Jianghu masters who had been famous for a long time, who were only stronger than his own group of people, and they were all coming for the ten major sects or promotions to make a fortune. It is said that the people of Xingyue Pavilion explained that King Ning made a statement to the Son of Heaven that he was willing to wash away the charges on his body with the heads of ten thousand horsemen of the desert people.
The arrival of these people brought invisible pressure to Kang Qianfeng, his father Kang Yuzhi sent his uncle Ao Xijian to bring ten masters of the sect to help, plus Feng Yueqing, who was originally by his side, Feng Yueqing and himself, three of the five masters of Fengle Gate who were refining qi and transforming gods, and as many as eight of the more than 20 senior brothers who stepped into the realm of refining and refining qi, and sixty percent of the elites of Fengleimen came to Mobei.
Among the second group of Jianghu people who came, Kang Qianfeng met the people from Luoyimen, and the leader of the team was his wife's uncle Xu Qingzhi, who inquired about Ning'er's news, Xu Qingzhi just said lightly that Ning'er was in retreat, and he would not go out of the customs without a year or two. The people of Luoyimen declined the invitation to act with him, and it seems that Hua Shengwei's matter is still unresolved. Kang Qianfeng sighed, and when the matter of Mobei was over, he would personally come to the door to apologize and take Ning'er home.
Brother Tu Chengyi also came with Uncle Ao, Kang Qianfeng knew that the person who came forward to negotiate with Tianxingzong this time was this brother-in-law, although his father did not explain the purpose of sending Brother Tu to come, but father and son connected Kang Qianfeng could guess eight or nine points, one is to let the brother go to Mobei to avoid the limelight, and the other is to let himself see if there is a chance to remove hidden dangers.
Kang Qianfeng glanced at his brother-in-law who cut mutton with a knife, his mood was complicated, his brother-in-law was amazingly talented, if it weren't for his father who didn't give him the second half of the mental method, I'm afraid his strength would be above him. In these years, the righteous brother was born and died for the wind and thunder gate, and in his heart, he can be called a hard worker, if the court has no intention of tracking him down, he will never cut himself off.
On August 12, the desert soldiers marched south to invade the north city of Zhenbei, and the marshal Wang Keming led the crowd to rescue, and the desert soldiers retreated. The Military Intelligence Department dispatched with the army as the advance team to track the traces of the desert soldiers, Fengleimen was divided into two teams, Kang Qianfeng and Feng Yueqing led one team, and Ao Xijian led another team, and the eighty teams of the Military Intelligence Division scattered into the grassland to collect information on the desert people.
Kang Qianfeng's team was northwest, and they didn't directly track the desert soldiers' brigade, and they didn't know if it was luck, they actually inadvertently discovered the location of the desert cavalry. With Tu Chengyi here, Kang Qianfeng and Feng Yueqing disguised themselves as desert soldiers and mixed into the camp tent, where fifty or sixty thousand desert soldiers were stationed, and when Kang Qianfeng approached the middle of the camp tent, he saw the fluttering black wolf flag.
The three most elite light horses of the desert people: the golden wolf and the black wolf
, blue wolf, Kang Qianfeng knew that the black wolf was led by the left khan king of the Northern Desert, Batu Kunbo, and the blue wolf belonged to the right khan king Batu Liman, but the most powerful golden wolf army belonged to the desert saint Tizhu was in charge, and Kunbo and Liman were actually under the orders of their sister Tizhu in name. Later, she learned that Tiju was a saint of the Sadu Sect, and Tizhu announced that she would not marry for life, and that she would choose a capable person from among the children of her two elder brothers to inherit the throne, which was approved by His Holiness Badorje and announced that the Sadul congregation would guard this oath. When Zheng Guo's troops pressed the border and the war was about to break out, Kun Bo and Li Man finally abandoned their old grudges and worked together to deal with Zheng Guo.
The reason for the Mobei grass is that the Tizhu Holy Maiden has reunited into one, and countless desert people regard the Tizhu Holy Maiden as the savior of the grassland, and many remote tribes have led the crowd to meet and reunite under the banner of the golden wolf of the royal court. Zheng Guo is fighting strongly, and the Northern Desert is also fighting strongly, this time it is surprisingly difficult to attack Zhenbei City, it is Ti Zhu who proposes to attack the enemy's shortcomings with his own strengths, and use the advantages of the desert people to adapt to the weather to attack first, and take the initiative in his own hands.
After the sneak attack, the desert soldiers scattered and retreated backwards, and the black wolf cavalry led by Kunbo retreated to a grain station five hundred miles away, but he didn't expect to be inadvertently found by Kang Qianfeng. Kang Qianfeng looked at the black wolf flag fluttering above the golden horde, and his heart was pounding with excitement, if this information was sent back to the camp, the Zheng army would be able to inflict a heavy blow on the black wolf army, and the morale of the Mo army would definitely be greatly depressed, and it should not be difficult for him to make a miraculous achievement, and it should not be difficult to go straight to the sixth rank to suppress it.
After confirming the existence of the Black Wolf Army, Kang Qianfeng didn't dare to stay longer, and sneaked out of the camp with Feng Yueqing and Tu Chengyi, but was unexpectedly discovered by a team of patrolling desert horses. The desert cavalry pursued and killed, Kang Qianfeng and the three of them fought and retreated, and met Chen Buting and others five miles away, killed and scattered the desert cavalry, and fled to the south. Chen Buting suggested turning west and returning in a big circle, because the desert people would definitely come to catch up, they were not familiar with the terrain, and they also suffered a loss in horsepower, so it was easy to be caught up, and the turn to the west was unexpected by the indifferent people, although it delayed the time, but it ensured safety. When they came, they disguised themselves as small caravans, with goods and horses, and redressed as caravans, and traveled diagonally all the way to the west, and sure enough, they did not encounter any desert soldiers for a day or a night.
This place is only one hundred and sixty miles away from the border of Zheng State, and after a day of rapid travel, Kang Qianfeng decided to rest here for a night, and tomorrow he should be able to rush back to the camp after throwing away his supplies and hurrying for half a day.
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Under the moonlight, a figure crossed the grassland like a goshawk, rushing towards the direction where Kang Qianfeng and the others were stationed. In the distance, I saw the bonfire flickering, and the black shadow stopped, looked around, and saw a few big trees next to the bonfire, quietly sneaking away.
Soon, the figure appeared at the top of the tree, standing high above the campfire, listening intently to the words of the wind. The moonlight shone on the bare head of the figure, and the cyan ornaments were revealing a hazy brilliance, holy and weird, and two divine lights appeared in his eyes, staring at the figure around the bonfire without blinking, it was the Venerable Fuying of the Sadujiao Sect.
The slain cavalry returned to the camp to report the appearance of the Kunbo Zheng people's secret agents, and the Kunbo Li ordered the Sadujiao Master and His Holiness to lead the black wolf cavalry to pursue, and ten groups of wolf riders each group of 200 people, combed from the grassland like a grate, and the two hundred people brought four hundred war horses, all the way to the day and night, until twenty o'clock outside the north of the town still did not find any trace of the Zheng people's secret agents. After discussing with the other teams, Fu Ying left four teams to patrol outside the north of the city, and the other six teams scattered to the left and right, searching for the whereabouts of the Zheng people's secret agents.